Leadership (Abuja)
George Okojie
18 June 2008
Lagos — Lagos State Government yesterday launched a new initiative, Local Economic Development Strategies, (LALEEDS) with a call on all stakeholders to use the platform in bequeathing a better future for all residents of the state.
Governor Babatunde Fashola, who stated this yesterday at the launching of the LALEEDS held at the Eko FM Multipurpose hall in Ikeja, stated that the classification of the state by the United Nations Habitat as the fastest growing city in the world makes it imperative for the state to ensure proactive and visionary governance at all levels in the state.
Fashola who was represented by his deputy Princess Mrs. Adebisi Sarah Sosan, said the his administration would continue the reforms at the local government level and ensure that all the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas serve as credible platform for development.
Her words: "This is hinged on the fact that only vibrant local government administration anchored on a qualitative development programme at the grassroots could put the state on the path of development."
He therefore called on the private sector and civil society groups to collaborate with the local government areas in combating the challenges of development in the emerging of the mega city of Lagos.
Fashola said the LALEEDS is conceived by the state government as a platform for the local government to "more effectively complement the State government's development initiatives.
"This is in addition to enhancing their capacity to enhancing their capacity to respond to the realities of the serious infrastructural and environmental crises at the grassroots".
He expressed the confidence that when fully operational LEEDS will have a positive impact on the capacity of the state to meet the Millennuim Development Goals, MDG, by alleviating the poverty of the people especially at the grassroots.
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